All Screen articles in 20 January 2003 – Page 2
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Family films take top honours at Bavarian film awards
The makers of the family films Bibi Blocksberg and Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer shared top honours at this year's Bavarian Film Awards Presenting the Euro 250,000 award to producers Uschi Reich, Karl Blatz and Peter Zenk, Bavaria's prime-minister Edmund Stoiber said "the success of both of these productions confirms the welcome ...
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Vanity Fair faces production setback
Monsoon Wedding director Mira Nair's upcoming production of Vanity Fair faces uncertainty after it emerged that US star Reese Witherspoon may have to delay shooting.Producer Janette Day said that the adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel might only be delayed for a few weeks if a compromise can be reached, ...
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South Korean exhibitors enjoy robust health
South Korea's top three cinema circuits enjoyed strong growth in 2002 on the back of a building boom and an overall 20% rise in admissions. Taken together, CGV, Megabox Cineplex and Lotte Cinema now account for 45m admissions, a 42% share of the nation's total 107m admissions.Market leader CGV, ...
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World premieres and directing debuts topline Kinderfilmfest
Berlin's 26th Kinderfilmfest has announced that its 2003 edition will boast 14 feature films and 16 shorts, including six directing debuts and a large number of world premieres.The Kindfilmfest opens on Feb 7 with the Danish film, Someone Like Hodder (En Som Hodder) (pictured). Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz ...
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Rendez-Vous heralds vintage year for French Cinema
With French film riding high across the globe, 2003 looks primed for a good start at the Rendez-Vous of French Cinema which begins today. Approximately 340 foreign buyers will descend on Paris to screen films, meet with sales agents and cut deals at the five-year old event which many consider ...
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Capitol Films takes world sales rights on I'm Not Scared
Capitol Films has acquired world sales rights on Academy Award-winning director Gabriele Salvatores' I'm Not Scared (Io No Ha Paura), which will screen in competition at next month's Berlin International Film Festival.Medusa will release the film in Italy in March, followed by 20th Century Fox in Spain. Jane Barclay, joint ...
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Pathe takes world sales on Broken Wings
Pathe International has picked up worldwide sales rights on Broken Wings, Israel's foreign-language Academy Award entry.The feature debut of Nir Bergman will make its European premiere in the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival before a market premiere at the AFM. 'This is a very beautiful and moving, ...
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World premieres and directing debuts topline Berlin's Kinderfilmfest
Berlin's 26th Kinderfilmfest has announced that its 2003 edition will boast 14 feature films and 16 shorts, including six directing debuts and a large number of world premieres.The Kindfilmfest opens on Feb 7 with the Danish film, Someone Like Hodder (En Som Hodder) (pictured). Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz ...
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Breillat starts phase two of Anatomie d'Enfer shoot
Controversial director Catherine Breillat (pictured) heads out to Portugal this weekend to begin shooting phase two of her latest film, Anatomie d'Enfer. The film is based on her book Pornocratie and will once again examine the depths of sexual compulsion.Working with porn star Rocco Siffredi for the second time since ...
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Spanish Film Academy predicts 'The Crisis to Come'
Titling its annual report on the state of the national film industry 'The Crisis to Come,' the Spanish Film Academy has warned that '2003 will be a critical year' for Spanish cinema.The report, which analyses statistical data on the industry (official year-end figures have not yet been released by the ...
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PGA omits Hours, Pianist, Schmidt
Adaptation, Chicago, Gangs Of New York, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Road To Perdition and The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers will chase the main theatrical honour at the 14th Producers Guild of America Annual Awards on Mar 2. The six pictures were nominated today (Jan 16) for ...
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Amy Israel named production chief of The Orphanage
LA post-production house The Orphanage has appointed independent producer Amy Israel as head of production. Israel, the former senior vice president of acquisitions and co-productions at Miramax, will oversee a broad range of film-maker-driven projects as the company seeks to develop its production slate. While budgets will vary, all productions ...
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Scorsese gets US DGA Lifetime Achievement Award
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) will bestow its highest honour on Martin Scorsese when it presents the veteran film-maker with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 55th Annual DGA Awards on Mar 1. Announcing the decision today (Jan 16), DGA president Martha Coolidge said this would be only the ...
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8 Mile has record-breaking Australian opening day
Universal continued its impressive international roll-out of 8 Mile with a record bow in Australia today (Jan 16), where the rap drama's $975,000 (A$1.7m) one-day haul marked the biggest January opening in Australian box office history. It was also distributor UIP's biggest ever opening in the territory - beating Meet ...
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Soft Money - Nordic Region
Nordic regionProducers in the heavily-taxed Nordic region rely heavily on public subsidies, without which many would be unable to operate. Osman Kibar, Pia Lundberg and Jacob Neiiendam report.The Nordic region has some of the highest rates of taxation in the world. But its film producers are major beneficiaries of the ...
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A Guy Thing
Dir: Chris Koch. US. 2002. 101mins. Having got his big break as the writer of $300m worldwide hit Meet The Parents, Greg Glienna now mines a similar vein of material for A Guy Thing, a sweet-natured, though sometimes familiar-feeling romantic comedy made on a modest budget for MGM. Replicating the ...
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Berlinale's young German film-making sidebar complete
Perspektive Deutshces Kino - the Berlinale's sidebar for young, innovative German film making - has announced the remaining five films which will complete its list of eleven titles for this year's program. The sidebar will offer a mix of full-length feature and documentary films as well as, for the ...
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Another Senator executive bails out
Just four weeks after the surprise departure of Juergen Fabritius from Senator Entertainment, another executive: COO Friedrich-Carl Wachs has quit the company.Wachs (pictured) had been appointed in April 2002 as deputy to chairman Hanno Huth and Senator's fourth board member with responsibilities for corporate development, corporate communication, investor relations and ...
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UK distributor issues writ against Larry Clark
UK distributor Hamish McAlpine is refusing to let his fight with Larry Clark die down and has issued proceedings against the US director.McAlpine is claiming damages for libel from statements and actions which Clark alleged McAlpine made after the two were involved in a restaurant brawl in London last November, ...
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Alan Cumming to adapt his own novel for Bar Code Productions
Film rights to Alan Cumming's semi-autobiographical novel Tommy's Tale have been acquired by the newly-launched New York production company Bar Code Productions. The Scottish actor will produce the picture with Bar Code co-founders Aimee Shieh and Lisa Raden. Published by ReganBooks in the US in August, Tommy's Tale centres on ...